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The Kakashi gaiden could never be stretched to replace the fillers...like it would last maximum 3 episodes.
But rite now shippuden with its loads of stretched fights and repeated scenes (gai team and deidara pursuit) is really becoming annoying

i agree,

the gaara vs deidara fight was too long, i mean it began at ep 3 or 4 and ended at ep 18 or so..(if i remember correctly)

also.. smashing hiruko in the anime seemed alotlotlot faster then they did in the manga

deidara trying to lure naruto takes forever and the fights with team gai are simply ANNOYING

I think it'd fit in nicely after the rescue gaara arc when they show Kakashi laying in the hospital bed. That would be a prime moment for the flashback. I can't think of any fitting moment after that all the way up until the current arc, except maybe in the middle of Naruto's wind training.

If they were going to make a movie out of it, it would be Movie 4. I doubt we're waiting until August 2008 to see something that doesn't have the plot potential of a movie.

I think it'd fit in nicely after the rescue gaara arc when they show Kakashi laying in the hospital bed. That would be a prime moment for the flashback. I can't think of any fitting moment after that all the way up until the current arc, except maybe in the middle of Naruto's wind training.

i don't think it would be in the middle of the wind training because kakashi only thought about naruto being able to surpass the 4th, and i don't think kakashi somehow ends up with a flashback about obito and the situation back then

Shipuuden will go back to fillers after they find sasuke, the scene in the very first episode. I think fillers will start. Or maybe not since they showed introduced hidan and kakuzu shadow, giving an idea how they look.

I think it'd fit in nicely after the rescue gaara arc when they show Kakashi laying in the hospital bed. That would be a prime moment for the flashback. I can't think of any fitting moment after that all the way up until the current arc, except maybe in the middle of Naruto's wind training.

If they were going to make a movie out of it, it would be Movie 4. I doubt we're waiting until August 2008 to see something that doesn't have the plot potential of a movie.

Yeah that seems reasonable with the flashback.

As for Naruto dragging their fights out...I was really looking forward to Sakura vs. Sasori but now it's like...episode 24 was just horrible. I swear they repeated scenes like 5 times total, INCLUDING the whole speech before the commercial break. Can anyone tell me how pathetic Gai's battle looked too? They're just worried that they'll catch up to the manga again like they did the first half of Naruto.

Well it took 35 chapters in the manga from Naruto's return to gaara waking up so we can probably expect about that many before the end of this arc. At least 30. So far we have 24 episodes covering 25 chapters.

My pants are on break right now.

Why do I like Naruto?

Spoiler!

I like the character because while he may not be the strongest or the smartest or the best he chooses to rise above his darkness which has been substantial, and he is willing to put everything he has on the line for his friends because he'd rather never become hokage and have them with him than achieve his dreams with even one of them sacrificed.